IT employees at EmblemHealth are organizing to stop the New York-based employer from outsourcing their jobs to offshore provider Cognizant.
Employees say the insurer is on the verge of signing a contract with Cognizant, an IT services firm and one …

A combination of public smartphone use and technological surveillance has led to diminished personal privacy, a new study argues. The study argues that “dynamic visibility,” in which technological surveillance is combined with personal information volu…

Quantum computing may revolutionize information processing by providing a means to solve problems too complex for traditional computers, with applications in code breaking, materials science and physics, but figuring out how to engineer such a machine …

(Reuters) – Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari on Monday doubled down on his call for reforms to the U.S. banking system, saying that failing to make changes could leave taxpayers on the hook for big bank bailouts in any future fi…

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The dramatic drop in the price of oil since 2014 has delivered only a muted boost to the U.S. economy, but that could change if households start figuring cheap oil is here to stay.

Two interesting events took place this month. Tesla announced its Model 3, a relatively affordable electric car, and it attracted around 180K preorders on the same day. That was before the company actually revealed the car. There were more than 250K preorders in the first 36 hours. Oh, and the run rate is about 1,500 per hour of pre-orders for this car right now.

(Reuters) – Silicon Valley veteran Bill Campbell, who advised tech leaders including Apple’s Steve Jobs and Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos, has died on Monday after a long battle with cancer, his family said.

(Reuters) – Silicon Valley veteran Bill Campbell, who advised tech leaders including Apple’s Steve Jobs and Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos, has died on Monday after a long battle with cancer, his family said.

Using a new optogenetic technique, scientists forced proteins out of the cell nucleus and into the cytoplasm, where they could no longer do their jobs. The researchers then watched in real time as the cell responded to its personnel shortfall; the team…

Today, scientists operating the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-ray Observatory released a new survey of the sky made from the highest energy gamma rays ever observed. The new sky map, which uses data collected since the observatory began ru…

When operating on cancer, surgeons want to remove tumors and not healthy tissue. This is especially important and challenging when dealing with brain tumors, which are often spread out and mixed in with the healthy tissue. Researchers have shown that a…

A nebula known as “the Spider” glows fluorescent green in an infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). The Spider, officially named IC 417, lies near a much smaller object called NGC 1931, not picture…

By showing that a phenomenon dubbed the ‘inverse spin Hall effect’ works in several organic semiconductors — including carbon-60 buckyballs — physicists changed magnetic ‘spin current’ into electric current. The efficiency of this new power conversio…

Converting a single photon from one color, or frequency, to another is an essential tool in quantum communication. Scientists have now developed a miniaturized version of a frequency converter, using technology similar to that used to make computer chi…

The wave of rogue USB-C products that poses risks to PCs and mobile devices hasn’t gone unnoticed, and the USB Implementers Forum has taken steps to eradicate the issue once and for all.A new specification announced by the USB 3.0 Promoters Group, w…